Joseph Berse and Martha Tayler Married ye 3 of December 1676 ... Their Son Ebenezer born ye 20 of January 1685.
↑ Typical usage would suggest that the birth date is 20 Jan 1685/86, but given that the child afterwards was born May 1687 while the child before died in infancy, one would expect 1684/85 to be the most reasonable assumption based on spacing of his siblings' births. Unfortunately, no baptism for Ebenezer is found in Source:Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Church Records, 1639-1892, pp. 92-93. Meanwhile, Source:Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, p. 1:55, apparently misread the record, as he reports the date as 20 Jan 1687, which is impossible given John's birth 4 months later (the next children, as already noted, b. 8 May 1687). So the correct interpretation of this date remains unclear.
